Evolution of Complexity: Single Cell to Complex Organism - Professor Dr Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Professor Turi King discusses the career of developmental geneticist Professor Dr Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and how her passion for genetic analysis led to her 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
00:00 Introduction
00:25 What were your first research interests?
05:04 Studying the drosophila embryo instead of the adult fruit fly.
08:00 Discovering the gene that caused female sterility in drosophila.
09:57 What question was your Nobel Prize winning research trying to answer?
15:26 How did you discover the important genes in the development of drosophila?
19:24 What did you find when you started to look at Zebrafish?
23:09 How did your collaboration with Eric Wieschaus help with the research?
25:45 Was cooking part of the interview process for people wanting to work in your lab?
26:52 What is the discovery that you’re most proud of?